Sydney, with its forward line likely to feature players blessed with generous doses of height and mobility, may be the prototype modern football team this season.

So it was fitting to see two of those long-reaching yet nimble stars, Lance Franklin and Sam Reid, doing drills in the background to an unannounced visit to training by Modern Family star Sofia Vergara.

New supporter: US actor Sofia Vergara with her Swans jumper. Photo: Anthony Johnson

The actor was there because her sports fan fiance, Nick Loeb, wanted to see AFL up close.

Vergara chatted with another member of the Swans family of giant forwards, Kurt Tippett, who had practised earlier on a restricted program with Adam Goodes, who completes the brotherhood of impressive specimens set to cause havoc in 2014.

Franklin and Reid will team up in an official capacity on Thursday for the first time, when the Swans play West Coast in a NAB Challenge match at Blacktown International Sportspark. It's a big moment for both, with Franklin making his competitive debut for the Swans and Reid continuing his return to action after an injury-plagued 2013.

With Goodes certainly out and Tippett likely to be missing from round one, it's also a chance for the pair to show their ability to blend. It shouldn't be a problem, said Reid, who may go to defence when all players are fit.

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Asked about some of the differences between the quartet, Reid said he and Tippett, particularly, had the ingredients to complement each other.

"Kurt's a bigger body than I am. In the marking contest he's a monster and pretty hard to stop. He's really strong," Reid said.

"I think my running game up the ground can definitely work with that. I can move up the ground a bit, be up and back, to work at his feet or work in the air as well."

Franklin, too, is more solid than Reid, but also more mobile than Tippett.

"He works really well with the other forwards," Reid said of Franklin. "He's definitely not a selfish player from what I've seen out there. He's always looking for the best option for the team.

"Our tall forwards, like Buddy, Goodesy, myself, I don't think we're strictly limited to that one spot. We're all reasonably mobile so we can get up the ground a bit and move around. Hopefully we can be a bit of a nightmare to match up on."

In addition to Franklin, Sydney is set to give a run to Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Mike Pyke and Lewis Jetta on Thursday for the first time against an Eagles side fresh from a big win over Fremantle.

Reid said he was feeling fit and on track after a quad injury restricted him to just nine matches last year and a brief return before hurting himself once more.

"It was pretty frustrating doing the same thing again. It did slow me down, but I worked hard in the off-season and now I'm feeling fit.

"I'd run out of time to come back for the finals, so I took it easy over the off-season, a bit of a slower, gradual increase of load into the year. The speed running came a bit later than last year.

"It's turned out well. It's good to be fit out there, fully training and playing full games."